Henry McDonald v. F a Mabee’s Empirical Analysis
243 U.S. 90 · 1917
Citation profile
124 federal appellate · 38 district · 283 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 628 later decisions (62 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2024 · most notably International Shoe Co. v. Washington (1945), Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. (1950)
124 federal appellate · 38 district · 283 state decisions — followed in 41 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Pennoyer v. Neff · John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia v. Gold Issue Mining & Milling Company · Riverside & Dan River Cotton Mills v. Menefee
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 628 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(G)reat caution should be used not to let fiction deny the fair play that can be secured only by a pretty close adhesion to fact.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.